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...Instead, give gay and straight couples alike the same license, a certificate confirming them as a family, and call it a civil union - anything, really, other than marriage. For people who feel the word marriage is important, the next stop after the courthouse could be the church, where they could bless their union with all the religious ceremony they wanted. Religions would lose nothing of their role in sanctioning the kinds of unions that they find in keeping with their tenets. And for nonbelievers and those who find the word marriage less important, the civil-union license issued...
...Democratic Senator from the Pacific Northwest and a conservative Democratic Congressman from the South. But Oregon's Ron Wyden and Tennessee's Jim Cooper are convinced they have the answer to the nation's health-care crisis - if only they could get the key players on Capitol Hill to give their radical plan a hearing. "There's a real opportunity for a philosophical truce here that you didn't have in 1993," the last time Washington attempted to overhaul the health-care system, says Wyden. "Republicans, who didn't accept the idea of coverage for everybody in 1993, have moved...
...Wyden and Cooper are pushing a drastically different new arrangement under which employers would turn over the money they spend on those benefits to workers, so that employees could purchase coverage themselves from a selection of plans. The idea has a lot of appeal. It would give most people far greater choice than they have now, and they could take their benefits with them when they change jobs. It also provides generous subsidies for those who cannot afford to purchase health care on their own, and yet the Congressional Budget Office has said the proposal would be "revenue neutral," which...
...Capital Markets, Insurance and Government-Sponsored Enterprises, will hold a hearing likely to raise even more questions about the company. In a statement, Kanjorski said, "Unfortunately, taxpayers do not understand how AIG ended up in such a terrible situation, nor do they understand why the Federal Government continues to give it money." It was not clear whether AIG executives would attend the hearing...
...Caribbean vacation. Elite Island Resorts will accept your devalued portfolio as payment for stays this year at any of their seven seaside properties. The resort will take up to $5,000 worth of any of the 400 stocks - including bank, retail and tech stocks - listed on its website and give you credit based on the stock's worth as of Oct. 31, 2008. The deal lasts through...